FUSARO Maria Associate Professor – University of Exeter (United-Kingdom) Director - Centre for Maritime Historical Studies (United-Kingdom) Modern Period BIOGRAPHY Maria Fusaro graduated from the Università di Venezia Ca’ Foscari, and then moved to Cambridge where she completed her PhD in 2002. After a Junior Research Fellowship at St. Hugh’s College at Oxford, she was Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago. At the University of Exeter since 2006 she is presently Associate Professor (Reader) in Early Modern European History and she directs the Centre for Maritime Historical Studies (http://centres.exeter.ac.uk/cmhs/). Her research interests lie in the social and economic history of Early Modern Europe. Her major area of expertise is the history of Italy (especially the Venetian Republic) and the Mediterranean between the 15 th and 18 th centuries. Her research has focused mostly on the trade between the Mediterranean and the north of Europe, mercantile networks, and the history of the Venetian dominions in Greece. Between 2012 and 2014, under the aegis of an ERC Starting Grant, she worked on Sailing into Modernity: Comparative Perspectives on the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century European Economic Transition, a comparative study of contractual conditions and economic treatment of sailors in the 16 th and 17 th century Mediterranean. She is currently working within La reconfiguration de l’espace méditerranéen: échanges interculturels et pragmatique du droit en Méditerranée, XVe-début XIXe siècle an interdisciplinary research project chaired by Wolfgang Kaiser (Paris 1/EHESS, Paris), funded through the ERC Advanced Grant Scheme (2012-2016). BIBLIOGRAPHY She is the author of several publications including: • Political Economies of Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean: The Decline of Venice and the Rise of England 1450-1700 (Cambridge, 2015); • Reti commerciali e traffici globali in eta' moderna (Rome-Bari, 2008); • L’uva passa. Una guerra commerciale tra Venezia e l’Inghilterra, 1540-1640 (Venice, 1997). She has co-edited • with B. Allaire, R. Blakemore, T. Vanneste, Labour, Law and Empire: Comparative Perspectives on Seafarers, c. 1500-1800 (London-New York, 2015);